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What else is new- I’m gone, I’m back, I’m gone, I’m back, the cycle truly never ends. As always, when I disappear for 5 months, I come back with a lot of changes so we’re going to quickly address those and then resume our regularly scheduled blogging. Aka three random posts a week- NO EXCUSES MARY!!!

The biggest news and will eventually be a whole blog post- I’M ENGAGED. So yes, wedding planning will now be a topic of my blog.

I’ve also moved out of my shit hole apartment into a new and slightly better one. The people that lived there before us didn’t clean or really take care of it for the five years they lived there so it’s a fixer-upper that my roommate and I took on for a rental so that’s different.

Additionally- I’ve re-vamped my job search which like hopefully no one from my current company still remembers this blog because if they see this line I’ll get fired because that’s the kind of place I work out. But really the drive is getting to be too much and I need more work to do. Ideally- I’d love to learn but we’ll see if that happens.

So here’s some poll questions that I’d love for y’all to give me some input on for what content should be posted!

In case you’ve been living under a rock Eric is my very best friend. Being away from him has been very hard, the longer it gets the more we talk. This interview is long overdue, I’m pretty sure we started it shortly after my interview with Becca, it might have even been the same day. However, he wanted to restart it and wipe out the old answers since he is currently in a different state of mind. Let me know who you think I should interview next!

Mary: What do you want my readers to know about you?

Eric: I’m an acquired taste, but even more so I’m a work in progress.

Mary: If you had to describe yourself in three words, what words would you use?

Eric: An acquired taste.

Mary: What are your goals?

Eric: My overarching goal is to be happy. However, I want to be happy as well as having had made the world a better place in some regard.

Mary: What are your hobbies?

Eric: I watch a lot of cat videos recently, but I swear that’s not a complete depiction of who I am. I absolutely love eating food though and it shows (Mary’s note, it does not, that’s a lie). Also, I love to dance, spend time with friends making memories, and I get a sadistic pleasure or high ripping the sheets off of people’s beds when I lay in them or sit in them.

Eric: Holden Caulfield. At the most basic level, I connect heavily to his level of cynicism.

Mary: What’s your biggest achievement?

Eric: My biggest achievement…? That’s hard. So, my biggest achievement is also an achievement of any other people, such as my parents and teachers, which is going to college as a first generation college student.

Mary: When you were little what did you want to be?

Eric: When I was little I couldn’t make up my mind. I wanted to be a veterinarian, own a flower shop, be a bagger at the grocery store. I wanted to be a dentist. I wanted to be everything.

Mary: What’s the best compliment you’ve received?

Eric: That’s so hard, I’m trying to pick. Not to sound like I “Oh my God I have so many” I’m trying to sift through the memories, I’m trying to really think about it. I like really can’t choose. The one that stands out to me in this moment, but that doesn’t mean that’s the best, it’s the one that’s sticking out to me the most in my head right now, it’s the one that’s stuck with me. “Eric I just want you to know that you’re the strongest person I’ve ever met.”

Mary: Is there anything else you want to add?

Eric: Yes. As Maya Angelou said, “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” That’s about it. Live your life.

Here are some of those random questions that I steal from tumblr because I’m tired and out of ideas for today. I got really anxious and stressed today for no reason so I just kinda want to get his up and go to bed, hopefully tomorrow will be better. I’ve noticed the more I’m around places and things I hate the more anxious I get, in this instance I would say my place of employment and being told I can’t do anything is where it probably stems from. I feel like I have a thousand things to do when really I have none. I’m just annoyed and ready to be back at school, which at this time last year I never would have said. This is the third question post in this group you can read the first two here and here.

Have you ever wanted to tell someone something but didn’t? Yes, I feel like I do this a lot.

Who do you go to when you need to talk to someone? It depends on what I need to talk about, but honestly I usually just deal with it myself.

Have you ever been taken to the emergency room in an ambulance? Nope *knocks on wood*.

What are you listening to right now? Whatever my mom is watching on TV.

What is wrong with you right now? I’m tired.

What is on your wrists right now? Nothing because my manager made me take off my bracelet so it’s still in my work pant’s pocket.

Where did you get the shirt/sweatshirt you’re wearing? The school bookstore.

What do you like better: hot chocolate or hot apple cider? Hot chocolate. Anything besides apples that’s made with apples I do not like at all.

Do you make wishes at 11:11? Sometimes, but I feel like whenever I make a wish the opposite always happens.

Are you a good artist? No way. I can craft but I can’t do art.

Love really is a beautiful thing huh? I suppose. I’m kind of cynical when it comes to love so I don’t know how I feel about it.

Do you miss the way things were six months ago? No freaking way.

Ever been on a golf cart? Yep, my grandparents and Poppop both used to have them.

Do you have trust issues? Hahahahaha, yes. For some reason I feel like I end up friends with lots of liars and untrustworthy people which really develops the mindset that every person you interact with will be the same way.

Ever stayed up all night on the phone, with who? Too many times, but only texting really. Surprisingly all of them were boys, but not all of them I had romantic interests in. Oh what I life I lead.

Do you own something from Hot Topic? Yeah, they’re one of the few stores that sell Harry Potter stuff.

Do you use chap stick? Yes. Who doesn’t?

Have you ever slapped someone in the face? No I wish I had the guts sometimes but yelling is just as affective.

I’m not going to lie I could write a really good post tonight (potentially) but I worked today and I’m slightly cranky and very tired so I’m just going to finish this set of questions. If you want to see the rest of them click here or here or here or here.

81. How many people have you liked in the past three months? None! My life is so boring!

82. Has anyone seen you in your underwear in the last 3 days? Of course not.

83. Will you talk to the person you like tonight? Like my friends? Obviously. If this is like another crush question- I still don’t have one!

84. You’re drunk and yelling at hot guys/girls out of your car window, you’re with? I don’t drink so I don’t think I can answer this question?

85. If your BF/GF was into drugs would you care? Obviously, drugs are bad and I wouldn’t want to be in a relationship with someone who was involved with drugs.

86. What is the most eventful thing that happened last time you went to see a movie? I saw a movie? What else happens when you go to the movies?

87. Who was your last received call from? My dad.

88. If someone gave you $1,000 to burn a butterfly over a candle, would you? I mean probably, it’s a thousand dollars!! Unless this is like some sort of really bad thing I didn’t know about.

89. What is something you wish you had more of? Time. I always feel like a day could use more hours.

90. Have you ever trusted someone too much? There is an obvious reason that I have trust issues because I have trusted too many people with too much.

91. Do you sleep with your window open? At school I do because it’s way too freaking hot since they already turned the heat on.

92. Do you get along with girls? Some. I can’t stand those who like drama, scream, or are really obnoxious.

93. Are you keeping a secret from someone who needs to know the truth? Nope.

94. Does sex mean love? For me it does, which is why I’m waiting until I’m married. For others it does not.

95. You’re locked in a room with the last person you kissed, is that a problem? Yes.

96. Have you ever kissed anyone with a lip ring? Nope.

97. Did you sleep alone this week? I sleep alone every week.

98. Everybody has somebody that makes them happy, do you? Nope.

99. Do you believe in love at first sight? No, I believe in lust at first sight.

100. Who was the last person that you pinky promised? I don’t remember, I want to say someone at school but I honestly don’t know which is weird because I used to make pinky promises all the time.

Tonight I’m in a really bad mood. I was pushed over the edge and there comes a point where I can only take too much and I have to walk away. I am at that point. So here is a list of questions and answers that no one cares about but since I blog everyday and I can’t not blog because I hate not following through so I’m just doing this. You can read the other three posts here, there, and here.

61. Do you wish you were somewhere else right now? Yes, I want to go somewhere really cool, I’m not sure where.

62. When will be the next time you text someone? I suppose it depends on if I need anything or if anyone texts me soon.

63. Where will you be five hours from now? Bed, hopefully.

64. What were you doing at eight this morning? Trying to sleep but I had a dream the Russians took over the US and were after me, it was like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows but instead of Voldemort it was Russia and I was like Harry.

65. This time last year, can you remember who you liked? Yes, it was NO ONE! I AM TOO SINGLE!

66. Is there one person in your life that can always make you smile? There are a lot of people that can always make me smile.

67. Did you kiss or hug anyone today? No, I’m not really a touchy person.

68. What was your last thought before you went to bed last night? Maybe something about Russia taking over the US and Harry Potter but I thought it was about something I had to do.

69. Have you ever tried your hardest and then gotten disappointed in the end? First of all this sounds like an awkward question to me but anyway, yes every bio exam last year and a lot of other times too.

70. How many windows are open on your computer? Four tabs on google chrome and then two other apps are running.

71. How many fingers do you have? I don’t know why this is a question but I have ten.

72. What is your ringtone? The default I suppose.

73. How old will you be in five months? Still 20.

74. Where is your mum right now? I suppose in bed but I don’t know, I’m at college.

75. Why aren’t you with the person you were first in love with or almost in love? I don’t know. We broke up.

76. Have you held hands with somebody in the past three days? Nope. I’M ALONE!

78. Are you friends with the people you were friends with two years ago? Some of them.

First and foremost (this mostly directs family and friends, mostly family) I did not get a tramp stamp that says “I’m a babe” and I’m slightly saddened that you would think that I would do that. If I was going to get a tattoo I would obviously get a lightening bolt on my forehead to be the girl that lived. Secondly, I am yet again doing more tumblr questions because it’s a busy week and I’m giving myself a half an hour to do this and work on my paper that’s due Thursday before I get a shower and go to bed, so yes onto the easy stuff yet again. If you are confused about the tattoo things in was in one of my other two tumblr questions posts which you can read here and here.

41. Where was your last bruise? My leg.

42. What is it from? I’m not sure, I probably ran into something, I have a terrible tendency of doing that.

43. Last time you wanted to be away from somewhere really bad? Last night at dinner I was uncomfortable, anxious, and wanted to leave.

44. Who was the last person you were on the phone with? One of my managers at work, trying to figure out my schedule for next weekend.

45. Do you have a favorite pair of shoes? No, I honestly would rather be barefoot, but I’m in college and that’s how you contract diseases.

46. Do you wear hats if you’re having a bad hair day? No, they don’t fix my bad hair days.

47. Would you go bald if it was the style? I would consider it but I probably never would considering I haven’t gotten my haircut in over a year because I don’t want it to be short.

48. Do you make supper for your family? No, I wish I could say sometimes, but I don’t really cook and no one ever asks me to. If someone asked me to I would.

49. Does your bedroom have a door? Considering I live in a dorm room I would really hope so.

50. Top 3 web-pages? 1: YouTube 2: WordPress 3: Netflix I think this also tells you a lot about my life. At least now my own blog isn’t in the top three, over the summer it was.

51. Do you know anyone who hates shopping? My youngest sister used to, now I think she likes it. If I need something I do, if I don’t then I love shopping.

52. Does anything on your body hurt? My leg hurt but then I readjusted so it’s all good now.

53. Are goodbyes hard for you? It really depends on the person and how long we’re saying goodbye for. Like when my best friend left for Ethiopia for two years it was really hard until she got back, but when we leave for college it’s tough but I don’t cry or anything. I don’t cry as much as I should really.

54. What was the last beverage you spilled on yourself? Water or coffee. I know I spilled coffee on myself earlier I just can’t remember if I spilled water before or after that.

55. How is your hair? Disgusting.

56. What do you usually do first in the morning? Make sure I woke up on time and check my email.

57. Do you think two people can last forever? Yes, my grandparents and my parents have both in relationships for a very long time and that makes me know that two people can be together forever.

58. Think back to January 2007, were you single? Considering I was in the sixth grade, obviously I was single.

59. Green or purple grapes? I don’t like grapes.

60. When’s the next time you will give someone a BIG hug? I’m not really sure, I’m not much of a hugger really. Honestly not much of touchy person. There are certain people that I can be touchy with and I’m still comfortable but there are other people that I just am never touchy with. For example, Hannah and I hug every time we see each other, Lindsay and I have maybe hugged twice in the two and a half years we’ve been friends.

So yes more Mary facts for you. I hope you are having a great day, pick your favorite question and leave it in the comments.

Just a heads up for people who read regularly, I do typically follow people who comment so if you leave me a comment there is a higher chance that I will look at your blog and follow you. I’m not sure why I do that it’s just the way I’ve always kind of done it.

I don’t know how it’s already midnight, I feel like I’ve been productive. Maybe it’s just because Tuesdays and Thursdays are my most busy days, I’m not sure. Anyway, I’m very tired and feeling very lazy so I’m going to use some more questions I found on tumblr, again for times where I feel lazy like this. I give it a week or two until I use them all. Take my advice and never promise yourself that you’re going to blog EVERYDAY for a whole year. It’s nice and all but it’s a lot of work in addition to work and school which is what I’m doing this week.

Is there a boy/girl in your life? HAHAHA good joke. The fact that I was considering signing up for Tinder tonight shows how alone I am, I’m not doing that by the way.

Think of the last person who hurt you; do you forgive them? I already did, just because I forgave them though doesn’t mean I can trust them again.

What do you think of when you hear the word “meow?” Cats. I like the orange ones I decided.

What’s something you really want right now? Cuddles and chocolate. I always want chocolate, I don’t usually want cuddles though. I’ve been in some weird cuddly mood lately I’m just going to blame the weather.

Are you afraid of falling in love? Of course. I don’t like the idea of being in love. It’s like trusting someone and I don’t really do that, it’s not my thing.

Do you like the beach? I like the idea of the beach. I hate sand, I hate how sticky it is, I hate how hot it gets, I hate how humid it is. I just don’t actually really like the beach at all.

Have you ever slept on a couch with someone else? No, the couch is my place to sleep alone.

What’s the background on your cell? Balloons and a quote that says “You will never be crowned if you always back down”

Name the last four beds you were sat on? Mine, Becca’s, Chloe’s, and I honestly can’t remember who else’s room I was in recently. Also this is kind of a creepy question.

Do you like your phone? I love my phone. Not as much as everyone thinks though. I think some people think that I’m always trying to stay connected when really I just use my phone to avoid social situations when I feel anxious. It’s a grown up security blanket.

Honestly, are things going the way you planned? No, things never go the way I planned. If things were going the way I planned, I would be at CUA because that was the school I wanted to go to until I actually visited, I would be dating this guy who will remain nameless, and I would be really good at writing.

Who was the last person whose phone number you added to your contacts? The lady I’m babysitting for this week.

Would you rather have a poodle or a Rottweiler? Neither. I want a small dog that I can hold and cuddle with.

Which hurts the most, physical or emotional pain? Well if someone cut off my arm that would hurt a lot more than emotional pain, but a paper cut doesn’t hurt as much as a broken heart.

Would you rather visit a zoo or an art museum? If it’s the perfect temperature outside, the zoo, if not an art museum.

Are you tired? Yes, that’s why these questions are being answered.

How long have you known your 1st phone contact? My whole life. It was my dad.

Are they a relative? Yes.

Would you ever consider getting back together with any of your exes? Yes.

When did you last talk to the last person you shared a kiss with? The better question is who did I last share a kiss with.

Okay that’s it. There’s a lot more questions that will eventually be answered. I’m going to bed now, good night!

Okay so basically this was not the plan for tonight. My files for my videos are messed up and it’s really frustrating. I might just do the adventure posts this week without the videos ready because it’s not working the right way and I’m frustrated. It’s a long story and once I get the videos up I’ll explain. So for tonight I’m finishing these questions. Just curious, how do you feel about this new layout? I’m not sure about it, I’ll probably change it soon. I do like my new menu system, I just need to go through and change like what category some of my things are in if that makes sense. Not that you need to know that anyway. I’m rambling per usual cool Mary. See the thing with blogging is that a normal blogger would delete all of this nonsense, yet it’s my personality so I always let the nonsense stick around, character ya know? Let me just get to it, over 180 words in this first paragraph that means nothing to the majority of people who read this, cool.

If you want to read the first part of these 30 questions you can scroll down just past this post or you can click here.

16. Who are your mentors? Is it bad to say I don’t think I have any? Like there’s no one that has really taken me under their wing to teach me something. Actually, I do have one. My kindergarten teacher, is a great mentor, not because she was my kindergarten teacher but I used to help out with the acting club in the elementary school, like after participating in it during 5th and 6th grade. I always admired her because she helped me gain so much confidence, like I’m confident in who I am today and I think a great deal of that is due to her. The confidence was always there, she just helped to get it out.

17. What is your cosmic elevator pitch? Not your job description, professional bio, resume, About page. In short, who are you – raw, unedited, wild, ordinary and extraordinary you? Okay so I left the description of this one in because I thought it needed explaining. I’m an anxious mess of a teenage for only a short month longer. I care too much about anyone I even like a little bit and it’s starting to ruin my life a little bit. I have a short temper and little patience. I like weird things like robots and legos. I laugh loudly, but sometimes I laugh so hard I make no noise and just wheeze instead. I like to color and craft, it’s so peaceful and relaxing. I’m trying to figure out what I’m doing with my life and the more I go on the less I want to do. I’m currently struggling with a quarter-life existential crisis. I love coffee and cookies but I know I need to exercise more. I’m lazy but I hate it when I don’t get things done. I like to sleep but I can’t sleep in without feeling like I wasted the whole day. I’m afraid of silly things, but they aren’t silly to me, people just don’t usually understand. I like to make a stand for others but I never seem to do so for myself until it’s too late. I’m in a bad place right now but I’m waiting for it to get better, I’m trying to make changes to get better. I will get better.

18. What issues can you help with? I don’t like this question. I can do what needs to be done, if there’s an issue and I can help, I’m going to try and do my best to help.

19. How can you express yourself creatively? Well I find something to write about here every day and if you ask me that gets pretty damn creative someday, let’s refer to my post of how I’m not a fan of Julie Chan (yes I changed the structure of the sentence to rhyme). I honestly have gone to extremes here to get to almost 300 posts in not even a year to try and get a post in everyday for 2014. Please find the weirdest thing on my blog and ask me about it because the majority of these posts have great creative stories behind them. Like really stupid stories, but creative ones at that.

20. How do you manage your time? I’m sure you know the answer to this question since it’s 12:06 and I’m still on question 20. The answer is I don’t really manage my time. I kind of just do what I want when I want and with few exceptions I manage to get everything done in the time frame it needs to be completed within. I do what I gotta do I guess. It’s now 12:12 just to give you a little bit more insight of my time management.

21. If you were to to leave the world today, what is your manifesto? You do you. Don’t let others control who you are and what you want to do or what you do. Do what you want and don’t let anyone stop you. I’ve let people do that to me for far too long and I’m so done with it. Be your own person and let yourself. I would also like you to know that it’s now 12:33 I’m on the struggle bus tonight obviously.

22. What makes you come alive? Crafting and blogging and being creative. I can block out the world when I’m being creative. When I have a thought and I can roll with it I get really happy and I just feel great.

23. What are your most painful memories? Physically painful I would have to say when I fell of my scooter to save a toad’s life (looking back I’m pretty sure I had a panic attack the next day). -Side note, my computer wanted me to change toad’s to dog’s, whatever.- Mentally painful I would have to say the eighth grade was really hard for me at home. My grandmom was diagnosed with cancer for the first time and her treatment was in Philly so my mom was there a lot and my dad had a work project in North Carolina so he was gone a lot too and I just remember feeling really alone. I don’t really like talking about it but I just remember getting angry at really dumb things as a backlash.

24. Why do you eat the way you eat and the things you eat? I’m actually not sure if I’ve ever talked about my weird eating habits here, but I’m so picky. I don’t eat anything that touches (ever), I don’t like cheese, I don’t like sauces really, ketchup is on my top three things that make me want to vomit. Ask me questions if you want to know more about my weird eating habits!

25. What ignites your brain? Basically nothing. I have to have motivation and lately that’s been hard to find. Someone leave their answer in the comments to help me out please.

26. What physical exercise makes you sweat like you mean it and enjoy both the process and the feeling afterward? Literally none. I hate sweating and honestly if I wasn’t lazy I still would hate exercise because I hate sweating so much. I will never enjoy any of it. No physical exercise makes me happy. At all.

27. What does your body need in order to function at it’s best? I feel like the expected answer would be coffee since I love it so much, but it’s actually so bad for me. I need water. I think I get dehydrated really quickly for some reason, but if I don’t drink enough water I get really cranky, but also get really dizzy and nauseous.

29. What are you proud of so far? I’m really proud of my Quiz Bowl MVP award which sounds dumb, but I was honestly so surprised by it that it’s such a great achievement for me. I’m also really proud of my blog, who would’ve thought that I would still be blogging nearly a year later, not me. Who would’ve thought I would’ve had over 200 followers? Not me.

30. Fast-forward to your epitaph. What does it say? Well first of all I had to look up what this word means and it’s just a statement about someone who dies, that’s cool. Right now I think it would say “Wannabe blogger, sarcasm master, loving person”. I don’t actually know though.

Okay so just another time check, 1:21. Cool. Anyway, I’m going to try and edit some or something. Or maybe go to bed. I asked you guys to comment a lot, so someone do it so I don’t feel bad about myself. Also feel free to answer these questions, the link is in part one, let me know if you do so I can check it out!

I need a quick little study break so here I am answering a few more questions from the same thing as the other day. I haven’t looked at them yet and I’m really hoping they’re easy because my brain hurts, I’m tired, and I really need to do laundry.

31. Is your hair long enough for a pony tail? Of course, but I prefer the messy buns.

32. Which celebrities would you have a threesome with? None, that shit freaks me out.

33. Spell your name with your chin. mzfh- well I guess I failed that one.

34. Do you play sports? What sports? What do you think? Of course not.

35. Would you rather live without TV or music? TV, I hardly look at the screen anyway. However, I would really miss Grey’s Anatomy.

36. Have you ever liked someone and never told them? Of course, some things are best left unsaid.

37. What do you say during awkward silences? Something to make it more awkward.

55. Favourite blog? sprinkleofglitter.blogspot.co.uk Lousie is my role model and an all around great person.

56. Favourite colour? I don’t believe in favorite colors. Seriously.

57. Favourite food? French fries.

58. Last thing you ate? Twizzlers.

59. First thing you ate this morning? Turkey sausage.

60. Ever won a competition? For what? Kind of, myself and my partner Amy, won a Science Olympiad in one event but we didn’t win overall. I don’t think I’ve ever been in a competition that I won all on my own though.

That’s it. Sorry hopefully I can make up for all of these stupid posts after finals (Thursday). Thanks for sticking through this with me!